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DEMOCRITUS in London; with the mad pranks and comical conceits of Motley and Robin Good-fellow; to which are added notes festivous, etc. [By George DANIEL.]

London; 1852. Octavo.* [Gent. Mag., July 1852, p. 75.]

DEMOCRITVS or Doctor Merryman his medicines, against melancholy humours. Written by S. R. [Samuel ROWLANDS.]

Printed for Iohn Deane. 1607. Quarto. Twenty three leaves. This [1609] and the later editions are entitled 'Doctor Merryman or nothing but mirth.' [Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

DEMONSTRATION (a) how the Latine tongue may be learn't with far greater ease and speed then commonly it is. [By Arthur BRETT, M.A.]

London, 1669. Quarto.* [Bodl.] Signed
A. B. Z. W.

DEMONSTRATION (a) of the trueth of that discipline which Christe hath prescribed in his worde for the gouernement of his Church, in all times and places, vntill the ende of the worlde.T Wherein are gathered into a plaine forme of reasoning, the proofes thereof; out of the scriptures, the euidence of it by the light of reason rightly ruled, and the testimonies that have beene giuen therevnto, by the course of the Churche certaine hundreths of yeares after the Apostles time; and the generall consent of the Churches rightly reformed in these latter times : according as they are alleaged and maintained, in those seuerall bookes that haue bin written concerning the same. [By John UDALL.]

N. P. N. D. Octavo.* [Adv. Lib.] DEMONSTRATION (a) that the Church of Rome, and her councils have erred by shewing, that the Councils of Constance, Basil, and Trent, have, in all their decrees touching communion in one kind, contradicted the received doctrine of the Church of Christ. With an appendix in answer to the xxi. chapter of the author [Gother] of A papist misrepresented and represented. [By Daniel WHITBY.]

London, M DC LXXXVIII. Quarto.* [Bodl.] DENMARK vindicated being an answer to a late treatise called, An account of Denmark, as it was in the

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DENZIL Place A story in verse. Violet Fane. [Mrs SINGLETON.] London 1875. Octavo. Pp. 252.* DEO Ecclesiæ et conscientiæ ergo: or, a plea for abatement in matters of conformity, to several injunctions and orders of the Church of England. To which are added some considerations of the hypothesis of a king de jure and de facto, proving that king William is king of England, &c. as well of right as fact, and not by a bare actual possession of the throne. By Irenæus Junior, a conforming member of the Church of England. [Samuel SNOWDEN, rector of Newton and Swanstrop, in Norfolk.]

London: 1693. Quarto. Pp. xvi. 96.* [U. P. Lib.]

DEPLORABLE (the) life and death of Edward the Second, king of England. Together with the downefall of the two vnfortunate fauorits, Gaveston and Spencer. Storied in an excellent poem. [By Sir Francis HUBERT.]

London 1628. Octavo. Pp. 150. b. t.* The above is a spurious edition. The genuine edition was published in 1629, and has the following title:-The historie of Edward the Second. Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the fatall downe-fall of his two vnfortunate Now favorites Gaveston and Spencer. published by the author thereof according to the true originall copie, and purged from those foule errors and corruptions, wherewith that spurious and surreptitious peace, which lately came forth vnder the same tytle, was too much defiled and deformed. With the addition of some other observations, both of vse and ornaments. By F. II., Knight. The dedication is signed

Fran. Hubert. For an account of these two editions, and of the reprint of 1721, See Brydges' Restituta, i. 92; and The Gentleman's Magazine, xciv. pt. 2, p. 19. See also Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, No. 555, from which the title of the genuine edition has been taken.

DEPOPULATION (the) system in the highlands its extent, causes, and evil consequences, with practical remedies. By an eye-witness. [Thomas M'LAUCHLAN, D.D.]

Edinburgh M.DCCC. XLIX.

Octavo.*

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Charlotte Elizabeth, authoress Osric, the Rockite, the System, &c. &c. [Charlotte Elizabeth TONNA.]

London: MDCCCXXXIII. Duodecimo. Pp. iv. 382.*

DERWENT; an ode. [By John CARR, LL.D.]

London N. D. Quarto. Pp. 14.* DESCANT (a) on the penny postage. [By John PEACE.]

London: 1841. Octavo.

DESCANT (a) upon railroads. By X. A. P. [John PEACE.]

London. MDCCCXLII. Octavo.* DESCANT (a) upon weather-wisdom. By John PEACE].

London. MDCCCXLV. Octavo.* DESCENT (the) into hell, a poem. [By John Abraham HERAUD.]

London: MDCCCXXX. Octavo. Pp. 228. b. t. 1.* [Adv. Lib.]

DESCRIPTIO Angliæ et descriptio Londini: being two poems in Latin verse, supposed to be written in the XVth century. [By G. CORYATE.] London 1763. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.] DESCRIPTION (a), anatomical and physiological, of the sectional model of the human body, the Parisian Venus ; comprising a popular account of the parts displayed: their functions and uses. [By J. ALLISON.] Manchester: 1844. Octavo.*

DESCRIPTION (a) and explanation of 268 places in Jerusalem, and in the suburbs thereof, as it flourished in the time of Jesus Christ: answerable to each of the 268 figures that are in its large and most exact description in the map; shewing the several places of the acts and sufferings of Jesus Christ, and his holy apostles; as also of the kings, prophets &c. very useful for the more clear and fuller opening of very many places in the prophets (as also in Josephus and other histories) especially in the Acts of the apostles. [By Christian Adrichomius.] Translated by T. T[YMME]; reviewed and in many places rectified according to the Holy Scriptures, &c., by H. Fessey.

London: 1654. Quarto. [W] DESCRIPTION (the) and use of a new astronomical instrument, for taking altitudes of the sun and stars at sea, with an horizon, &c. [By W. WARD and Caleb SMITH.]

London: 1735. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.] DESCRIPTION (the) and use of a portable instrument vlugarly (sic) known by the name of Gunters quadrant. By which is perform'd, most propositions in astronomy, as the altitude, azimuth, right ascension, and declination of the sun, &c. Also his rising, and setting and amplitude, together with the hour of the day or night, and other conclusions exemplified at large. To which is added the use of Napiers bones in multiplication, division, and extraction of roots. the nocturnal. The ring dial, and Gunters-line, in many necessary and delightful conclusions, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacity. Collected and digested into this portable volumn, for the use of young practitioners. By a true lover of the mathematicks. (William LEYBOURN.] London 1685. Duodecimo. Pp. 70. b. t.* [Aberdeen Lib.]

Also

The addition has a separate title-page and pagination (pp. 5. b. t. 86), and is said to be published by W. L.

DESCRIPTION (the) and use of a quadrant, by which all the most usefull and necessary propositions of both the globes are easily and exactly performed, as the right ascension, declination, altitude, amplitude, rising, setting, azimuth, and houre of the day. Also of a quadrant, by which you may take all manner of heights & distances, as

of towers, steeples, &c. And lastly, of a nocturnal; for the ready finding of the houre of the night. Published by J. H. for the use of such as are mathematically affected. [J. HEWLETT.] London, 1665. Octavo. Pp. 4 b. t. 54.* [Bodl.]

Author's name in the handwriting of Wood. DESCRIPTION of a method of taking the differences of right ascension and declination, with the Reticule Rhomboide of Dr Bradley, without placing the instrument in the plane of the equator. By H. E. [Sir Henry Charles ENGLEFIELD.] Bath. Quarto. [W] DESCRIPTION (a) of a new instrument [invented by J. Hadley] for taking the latitude or other altitudes at sea, with directions for its use. [By George HADLEY.]

London: 1734. Octavo. [W., Brit. Mus.] DESCRIPTION (a) of a series of illustrations to G. P. Harding's manuscript history of the Princes of Wales, from the time of Edward of Caernarvon, to the present sovereign of England: containing a list of all the portraits, armorial bearings, royal badges, monuments, seals, illuminated views, and other decorations. [By Thomas MOULE.]

London, 1828. Octavo. [W., Martin's
Cat.]

DESCRIPTION (a) of a strange (and miraculous) fish, cast upon the sands in the meads, in the Hundred of Worwell, in the county palatine of Chester, (or Chesshiere.) The certainty whereof is here related concerning the said most monstrous fish. To the tune of Bragandary. [In two parts.] [By M. PARKER.]

London, N. d. Folio. Single sheet. [Bodl.] Signed M. P.

There is a book to satisfie such as desire a larger description hereof. (Printed note.) DESCRIPTION (a) of Blackpool, in Lancashire; frequented for sea bathing. [By William HUTTON.] Birmingham, MDCCLXXXIX. Octavo. Pp. 55. b. t. [Bodl.]

DESCRIPTION (a) of Blenheim, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough containing a full and accurate account of the paintings, tapestry, and furniture; a picturesque tour of the gardens and park; a general de

lineation of the china gallery, private
gardens, &c. ; to which are also added,
an itinerary; an account of the Roman
villa, near Northleigh, &c. &c. with
a preliminary essay on landscape
gardening. [By Rev. William MAVOR.]
Twelfth edition, improved; embellished
with an elegant plan of the park, six
new engravings on steel, &c. &c.
Oxford: N.D. Octavo. Pp. 6. 2.139* [Bodl.]
The first edition appeared in 1787, with
the following title: Blenheim, a poem.
To which is added, a Blenheim guide.
Inscribed to their Graces the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough. By the Rev.
William Mavor. The 12th. ed. wants the
poem.

DESCRIPTION of Browsholme Hall, in the west Riding of the County of York; and of the parish of Waddington, in the same county: also a collection of letters, from original manuscripts, in the reigns of Charles I and II and James II, in the possession of Thos. Lister Parker, of Browsholme Hall, Esq. [Compiled by T. L. PARKER.]

London: 1815. Quarto. Privately printed. [W.]

DESCRIPTION (the) of Epsom, with the humors and politicks of the place: in a letter to Eudoxa. [By John TOLAND.] There is added a translation of four letters out of Pliny.

London: 1711. Octavo.* Signed Britto-
Batavus.

Also inserted in the second volume of his
Posthumous Works; but so much corrected,
enlarged, and explained, that the author
entitled this Tract A new description

of Epsom.' [Upcott.] DESCRIPTION of Killarney. [By DUNN.] Dublin: 1776.

DESCRIPTION (a) of Latium or la Campagna di Roma with etchings by the author. [Ellis Cornelia KNIGHT.] London, 1805. Quarto.*

DESCRIPTION (a) of Millenium Hall, and the country adjacent; together with the characters of the inhabitants, and such historical anecdotes and reflections as may excite in the reader proper sentiments of humanity, and lead the mind to the love of virtue. By a gentleman on his travels. [Mrs Sarah SCOTT.]

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DESCRIPTION (a) of St. Kilda, the most western isle of Scotland. Giving an account of its situation, extent, soil, product, bay, and adjacent islands or rocks. The ancient and modern government, religion, and customs of the inhabitants; and other curiosities of art and nature. Also their late roformation (sic). [By Alexander BUCHAN.]

Edinburgh, MDCCXXVII. Octavo.*

DESCRIPTION (a) of the antiquities and curiosities in Wilton House. Illustrated with twenty-five engravings of some of the capital statues, bustos, and relievos. In this work are introduced the anecdotes and remarks of Thomas Earl of Pembroke, who collected these antiques, now first published from his lordship's MSS. [By James KENNEDY.]

Sarum: 1786. Quarto. [W.] DESCRIPTION (a) of the city, college, and cathedral of Winchester. Exhibiting a complete and comprehensive detail of their antiquities and present state. The whole illustrated with several curious and authentic particulars, collected from a manuscript of Anthony Wood, preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford; the college and cathedral registers, and other original authorities, never before published. [By Thomas WARTON, B.D.]

London, N. D. Duodecimo. Pp. 108.* [Bodl.]

DESCRIPTION of the coast between Aberdeen and Leith. [By William DUNCAN.]

Aberdeen M. DCCC.XXXVII. Octavo. Pp. iv. b. t. 123.* [See "The selected writings of John Ramsay, M.A. . . . ‚” published at Aberdeen in 1871, p. 168.]

DESCRIPTION (a) of the collection of ancient marbles in the British Museum. [By Taylor COMBE.] parts.

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London: 1812-27. Quarto. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

DESCRIPTION (a) of the collection of ancient terracottas in the British Museum. [By Taylor COMBE.] London 1810. Quarto. Plates. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

DESCRIPTION (a) of the county of

Angus, translated from the original

Latin of Robert Edward, minister of Murroes. [By Rev. R. TRAILL, of St. Cyrus.]

Dundee, 1793. Octavo.* [A. Jervise.] DESCRIPTION of the figures in the chart of ancient armour. With a sketch of the progress of European armour from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. [By John HEWITT.] London: MDCCCXLVII. Duodecimo.* [Adv. Lib.] Signed I. H.

DESCRIPTION of the golden altar piece for the cathedral of Basle. [By Colonel von THEUBET.]

Paris: 1842. Quarto. [W., Brit. Mus.] DESCRIPTION (the) of the Low Countreys,&c. gathered into an Epitome out of the Historie of Lodouico Guicciardini [by Thomas DANETT]. London: 1591. Octavo. [W., Bibliog. Man. p. 954.]

Lowndes,

DESCRIPTION (a) of the parish of Melrose; in answer to Mr Maitland's queries, sent to each parish of the kingdom. [By Rev. Adam MILNE.] Edinburgh: 1743. Octavo. [W., Lowndes, Bibliog. Man.]

DESCRIPTION (a) of the scenery of Dunkeld and of Blair in Atholl. [By MACCULLOCH.]

London 1823. Duodecimo. Pp. 284.* [St. Andrews' Coll. Cat., p. 166.]

DESCRIPTION (a) of three hundred animals viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents and insects, with a particular account of the whale-fishery, extracted out of the best authors, illustrated with copper plates. [By T. BOREMAN.] London: 1730. Mus.] DESCRIPTIVE (a) catalogue of the minerals, and fossil organic remains of Scarborough and the vicinity, including the line of coast from Hornsea to Mulgrave, and extending into the interior as far as Malton. [By Francis KENDALL.]

Duodecimo. [W., Bru.

Scarborough: 1816. Octavo. Pp. 1. b. t. 316. [Bodl.]

DESCRIPTIVE (a) catalogue of the pictures, forming that portion of Her Majesty's collection deposited in the corridor of Windsor Castle. [By J. H. GLOVER.]

1845. Quarto. [W., Martin's Cat.]

DESCRIPTIVE (a) catalogue of the prints of Rembrandt. By an amateur. [T. WILSON.]

London: 1836. Octavo. Pp. 266.*

DESCRIPTIVE notices of some of the ancient parochial and collegiate churches of Scotland. [By Thomas S. MUIR.] With illustrations on wood, by Jewitt.

London, MDCCCXLVIII. Octavo. Pp. xxxii. 148.* Introduction signed T. S. M. DESCRIPTIVE (a) tour in Scotland; by T. H. C. [Chauncy Hare TOWNSHEND.]

Brussels MDCCCXL. Octavo.*

DESCRIPTIVE (a) tour to the lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland in the autumn of 1804. [By Benjamin TRAVERS.]

London: 1806. Duodecimo.* [Upcott.] DESCRIPTIVE (a) tour through the interior parts of Germany and France, including Paris; with interesting and amusing anecdotes. By a young peer of the highest rank, just returned from his travels. [Francis RUSSELL, 5th Duke of Bedford.]

London: 1786. Duodecimo. [Lowndes,
Bibliog. Man., 881.]

DESERT (the) island, a dramatic poem,
in three acts. As it is acted at the
Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. [By
Arthur MURPHY.]

London, MDCCLX. Octavo.* [Biog. Dram.] DESERT (the) world. From the French of Arthur Moingin. Edited and enlarged by the translator of "The bird, by Michelet." [W. H. D. ADAMS.]

London: 1869. Octavo. Addition to the preface signed A.

DESERTED (the) daughter: a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden. [By Thomas HOLCROFT.]

London: 1795. Octavo. Pp. 86.* [Biog. Dram.]

DESERTED (the) village school, a poem. [By R. POLWHELE.]

London: 1813. Octavo. [Gent. Ma., xc. i. 530-1; xciii. ii. 6.]

DESERTER (the). By Charlotte Elizabeth. [Charlotte Elizabeth TONNA.] Dublin 1836. Duodecimo. [W., Brit. Mus.]

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DESERTION (the) discuss'd.

In a

letter to a country gentleman. [By Jeremy COLLIER.]

No title page. [London : 1689.] Quarto.* [Biog. Brit., iv. 13.]

DESIGN (the) of enslaving England discovered in the incroachments upon the powers and privileges of parliament, by K. Charles II. Being a new corrected impression of that excellent piece, intituled, A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last parliaments of King Charles the Second. [By Robert FERGUSON.] London; MDCLXXXIX. Quarto.* [Bodl.] Ascribed to Algernon Sydney. [H.]

DESIGN (the) of part of the Book of Ecclesiastes or, the unreasonableness of men's restless contentions for the present enjoyments, represented in an English poem. [By William WOLLASTON.]

London, 1691. Octavo.* Preface signed W. W. [Preface to The royal preacher, by Dr. James Hamilton, p. xi.; and Todd's Life of Milton, p. 203.]

DESIGNE (a) for bringing a navigable river from Rickmansworth in Hartfordshire, to St. Gyles in the Fields; the benefits of it declared, and the objections against it answered. [By FORD.]

London, 1641. Quarto.* [Bodl.] DESK (the) and the counter

Young

men engaged in trade urged to self exertion for advancement in true dignity and excellence by a fellow labourer. [John MACLAREN.] With an introductory notice by William Anderson Esq.

Edinburgh 1844. Octavo.* [On the authority of the author.]

DESOLATION (the) of America; a poem. [By Thomas DAY.]

London: 1777. Quarto. [Watt, Bib. Brit.] DESPERATE remedies. A novel. [By Thomas HARDY.] In three volumes. London: 1871. Octavo.*

DESPOTISM: or the fate of the Jesuits; A political romance, illustrated by historical anecdotes. [By Isaac D'ISRAELI.] In two volumes. London: 1811. Octavo. Pagination continuous.* [Bodl.]

DESSERT (the), a poem, to which is added the Tea, by the author of "The banquet." [Hans BUSK.]

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